静岡と四国を行ったり来たり

英会話教室がありました。
東西日本の違いについて喋りましたが、女性陣の顰蹙を買いました。
Next Sunday I am planning to do rice planting with my neighbors. So we needed to clean the water channel to the rice field. When I was digging the channel , I said toa neighbor “ please pass me the scoop? ”

He replied with a suspicious look,

Scoop ? I have a shovel not scoop.

I found that western Japanese people call the big scoop as shovel. But eastern Japanese people call small scoop as shovel.

There are not only different expressions but different customs in Japan between eastern and western. One is escalator riding. In Tokyo , people stand on the left side of escalators and right side in Osaka.I don ’ t know why.

But both ways must be wrong.We should stand on the escalator .My worked company have been producing escalators and the designer of escalators said that viewing of safety, escalator should be used standing not walking.

Electric frequencies are different in Japan .The border of frequencies is Fuji river, it runs Fuji city very close to my Fuji house. This difference cause the extra expense.If we would have moved to opposite side of the river, we had to change washing machine, fluorescent lights, timer, and electric ovens etc.

Besides that, there are many differences like as shapes of rice cakes , udon soup ’ s soy sauce types.

But the same thing is women ’ s changeable feeling.